Mention the word Dante in the wrong circles and many people think of a bad Pierce Brosnan movie from the late 90s. However, in the high tech audio world, we now think of Audinate's Dante Audio Over IP solution and maybe the Focusrite RedNet range of high-end interfaces. Enter the new Tascam ML-16D and ML-32D Analogue to Dante converters with either 16 or 32 channels of A-D and D-A conversion respectively at up to 96KHz sample rate.

The team at Jigsaw24 are very pleased to announce the next of their very popular Mix With The Pros events to be held at their London Soho demonstration facility at 8 Golden Square on Thursday 26th of October 2017 starting at 6pm

The team at Focusrite are very pleased to announce the new RedNet X2P, which they describe as a small, compact and robust 2x2 Dante audio interface. Could this be the Dante equipped box we have all been waiting for? Now there is no need to move 8 or 16 channels of I/O to your performer's location when all they are recording is a vocal on a single mic with a single set of headphones.

The Pro Tools MTRX allows the creation of highly customizable cue mixes defined within the monitor profile. In this free video tutorial, you can learn how to create cue mixes made up of sources coming from Pro Tools to iTunes with Dante-based headphone amplifiers from Focusrite and KLANG.

Our friends at Focusrite have just informed us that they are ending their very popular offer to include an Avid DigiLink license with all purchases of new Focusrite Red 4Pre and Red 8Pre audio interfaces.

In this video from BVE 2017 at London ExCel, Pro Tools Expert Post Production Specialist Alan Sallabank talks to John Johnson from HHB, about the features and benefits of the new Avid MTRX interface and I/O.

Audinate’s Dante networking technology continues to be adopted by more and more manufacturers, so many that at ISE 2017 they announced the total number of Dante products had hit four figures. There is also an interesting trend from Manufacturers who were using other AoIP protocols are now adopting Dante.

There are a number of different AoIP protocols around. DAD have chosen to support Audinate’s Dante and will focus exclusively on their protocol in this article. This is by no means meant as an effort to take you through the in-depth details of Dante. Rather, it aims at answering a handful of the most common questions that audio professionals have when it comes to AoIP.

In direct contradiction to a widely held belief that the BBC don't use proprietary network technology it appears that the World Service have enthusiastically adopted Dante in mission-critical operations:

For the United States Presidential election the BBC World Service established a Dante based temporary production and distribution facility within its Washington DC bureau to manage and deliver live coverage to as many as 250 million listeners over a 12-hour period.

Our friends at Focusrite are having a RedNet event at Jigsaw 24's Golden Square premises in London on Thursday, 27th October 2016 between 5.30-9.00pm. At this event you will be able to get your hands on the Focusrite RedNet hardware, watch the demos and get the chance to talk to the Focusrite and Jigsaw24 teams

Focusrite has announced a major update to its RedNet Control software system that provides remote control for products in the company's RedNet range of Dante-based audio-over-IP systems. RedNet users the world over are employing and planning ever-larger RedNet systems, and RedNet Control 2.0 was developed in response to this trend.

The Red series of interfaces is the top rung of Focusrite’s interface range, and Focusrite have announced the launch of Red 8Pre to join their amazing Red 4Pre. In essence the Red 8Pre is the Red 4Pre with 4 more of the Focusrite Air-enabled Mic preamps.

On June 15th 2016 our friends at Jigsaw24 held their fourth Mix With The Pros Event. The guest speakers were music producer/mixer Tim Bran (London Grammar, La Roux and The Verve, film composer Walter Mair (Blood Orange, Glue and Ronaldo) as well as our own James Ivey, demoing his beloved Focusrite Red 4 Pre.

Dante Via is a software-only audio networking tool which has uses for consumers and professionals alike, it allows the creation of software-only Dante networks, flexible local application routing and much more.